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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"animal coloration"”.
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The Physical Basis of Extreme Animal Coloration
<p>Animals use color to hide from predators, signal to mates, and communicate, among other functions. Some animals, such as birds, butterflies, and spiders, have evolved extreme forms of coloration that push the limits of absorption and reflectance. In these animals, pigments and structural …
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Assessment of anthropocentric representations of color patterns for biological relevance
Studying animal coloration is a notoriously difficult task as animals differ in their visual system properties (number of cone cells, spectral sensitivities of cone cells, filtering properties of ocular media, etc.) and thus may perceive and respond to stimuli differently than we do. These …
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A computational approach to the quantification of animal camouflage
… to some astonishing camouflage strategies in the animal kingdom. Cephalopods like cuttlefish and octopus mastered a rather unique skill: they can rapidly adapt the way their skin looks in color, texture and pattern, blending in with their backgrounds. Showing a general resemblance to a visual …
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A computational approach to the quantification of animal camouflage
… to some astonishing camouflage strategies in the animal kingdom. Cephalopods like cuttlefish and octopus mastered a rather unique skill: they can rapidly adapt the way their skin looks in color, texture and pattern, blending in with their backgrounds. Showing a general resemblance to a visual …
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Testing the Urban Dulling Hypothesis in an Iridescent Passerine Bird
… to identify and explain urbanization-induced coloration differences in an iridescent species for the first time. We investigated the role of urbanization, body condition, stress, and preening effort in shaping variation in iridescent plumage coloration. We compared breeding European starlings …